Sepik Hill languages
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The Sepik Hill languages are a family
of northern Papua New Guinea
identified by Dye et al. in 1968. A few years later, Donald Laycock included them in the Sepik languages
. According to Malcolm Ross
(2005), they may include the Papi languages, formerly part of the Walio–Papi proposal.
Language family
A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestor, called the proto-language of that family. The term 'family' comes from the tree model of language origination in historical linguistics, which makes use of a metaphor comparing languages to people in a...
of northern Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea , officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands...
identified by Dye et al. in 1968. A few years later, Donald Laycock included them in the Sepik languages
Sepik languages
-Pronouns:The pronouns Ross reconstructs for proto-Sepik are:Note the similarities of the dual and plural suffixes with those of the Torricelli languages.-See also:*Papuan languages*Sepik–Ramu languages*Donald Laycock...
. According to Malcolm Ross
Malcolm Ross
Malcolm David Ross is a linguist and professor at the Australian National University. He has published work on Austronesian and Papuan languages, historical linguistics, and language contact.-External links:**...
(2005), they may include the Papi languages, formerly part of the Walio–Papi proposal.